{"id":3400,"date":"2014-06-30T09:42:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T02:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2014-06-30T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T02:45:22","slug":"two-tunisians-abducted-in-libya-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/two-tunisians-abducted-in-libya-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Tunisians abducted in Libya freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tunisian diplomat and a fellow embassy staffer abducted in Libya earlier this year have been freed by their abductors after months in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia&#8217;s Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa confirmed their release on Sunday and said they were on their way back home, the AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to inform you that several minutes ago a plane left Tripoli with our compatriots who had been held,&#8221; Jomaa said in a press conference at the foreign ministry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2014\/06\/two-tunisians-abducted-libya-freed-2014630025089974.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tunisian diplomat and a fellow embassy staffer abducted in Libya earlier this year have been freed by their abductors after months in captivity. Tunisia&#8217;s Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa confirmed their release on Sunday and said they were on their way back home, the AFP news agency reported. &#8220;I want to inform you that several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891,642],"tags":[1881,258,256,4711,892,1882,257,4694,254,4703,653,1880],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","category-tunisia","tag-abducted-in-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-mehdi-jomaa","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian-diplomat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}